I avoided posting about it because the signal to noise ratio was so bad. Now the facts are starting to leak out - some of them posted in full public view.
The primary issue was using Federal lands for grazing cattle. From the Bureau of Land Management website:
Uranium on BLM-Administered Lands in OR/WA
In September 2011, a representative from Oregon Energy, L.L.C. (formally Uranium One), met with local citizens, and county and state officials, to discuss the possibility of opening a uranium oxide ("yellowcake") mine in southern Malheur County in southeastern Oregon. Oregon Energy is interested in developing a 17-Claim parcel of land known as the Aurora Project through an open pit mining method. Besides the mine, there would be a mill for processing. The claim area occupies about 450 acres and is also referred to as the "New U" uranium claims.
Emphasis mine - Uranium One is the company that was purchased by Russia - Russia now owns 20% of the United States Uranium production. The person who brokered the deal? Hillary after a $2.35 million donation to the Clinton Foundation. The New York Times wrote about it on April 23, 2015
More at Bloomberg and Russian news agency TASS
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